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From: chaiklin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Seth Chaiklin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: C-64 Telecommunications
Message-ID: <1990Mar17.140940.25393@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 90 14:09:40 GMT
References: <1990Mar16.063140.23543@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <122@tygra.UUCP>
Reply-To: chaiklin@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Seth Chaiklin)
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In article <122@tygra.UUCP> wbks@tygra.UUCP (Sean Burke) writes:
>
>If you want an easy 2400 baud modem, aprotek makes one that plugs into the 
>commodore 64 or 128 directly.  It sells for around $80 mail-order.  However,
>there have been reports of problems with the 64 at 2400 baud.
>

This sounds really great.  Another person also recommended this via mail.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a place to mail-order this from?
As I understand, it would not be necessary to get a RS232 serial adaptor
under this method (with the downside being that the modem will be
useless if you decide to get another brand of computer....but for $80
it seems worthwhile).  

I too have heard reports of problems because the C-64 does not
have a UART so the CPU  has to do all the bit-shifting. (At  least
I am reporting what one emailer told me.)  But we could still
run this modem at 1200 baud I assume.

  Seth

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